Why Is Censoring Dangerous
Is it dangerous? When does the power that bans and censors certain aspects of media become dangerous, and when is it okay? Censoring and the banning of certain things is always okay if it doesn’t put the public in danger or won’t affect the views of the American people. However, there is a very thin line that the government can cross that could really make censorship and banning a very serious and dangerous topic. Censoring plays a huge part in movies and television shows. A lot of curse words and vulgar words that are not acceptable to say in a normal conversation are censored. Whether a show or movie is censored depends on the television channel. For example, ABC Family would censor out anything they thought might be offensive to children and families; while
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When censoring is used in this situation I think it is very helpful because if I wouldn’t want children to be watching something offensive that threw out curse words like regular English. Censoring starts to become dangerous when something is censored that could possibly change the perspective people have over a higher ranking authority. If you read an article about the government and one paragraph was completely censored out and beneath black lines the article says that the government was keeping secrets that could affect the perspective that the American people have over them. That could be extremely dangerous. That little piece of that article could affect every American citizen and their well being. Banning is the along the same lines of censorship but instead of taking out a word, sentence, or paragraph, the whole movie, show, book, or article is gone. “Partial Terms of Endearment” is a Family Guy episode that was completely banned from television in 2009. The reason this season 8 episode was banned, not to go into too much detail, was because the
When censoring is used in this situation I think it is very helpful because if I wouldn’t want children to be watching something offensive that threw out curse words like regular English. Censoring starts to become dangerous when something is censored that could possibly change the perspective people have over a higher ranking authority. If you read an article about the government and one paragraph was completely censored out and beneath black lines the article says that the government was keeping secrets that could affect the perspective that the American people have over them. That could be extremely dangerous. That little piece of that article could affect every American citizen and their well being. Banning is the along the same lines of censorship but instead of taking out a word, sentence, or paragraph, the whole movie, show, book, or article is gone. “Partial Terms of Endearment” is a Family Guy episode that was completely banned from television in 2009. The reason this season 8 episode was banned, not to go into too much detail, was because the